Thursday, 4 July 2013

A commentator has recently drawn my attention to
the prophecies of Sr. Jeanne le Royer (who took the religious name of
"Sister of the Nativity"), a French nun who received a series of
apocalyptic visions in the 18th century. Sr. le Royer's visions were recorded
in the 1817 book Vie et Révélations de Sœur de la Nativité (The Life and
Revelations of the Sister of the Nativity), by Charles Genet. Her
prophecies correspond quite closely with many of the hypotheses I forward in my
book Unveiling the Apocalypse - which is quite remarkable,
given the fact that my theories on this subject were not in any way influenced
by this particular source.

Sr. le Royer's prophecies mention mountains
"cracking and splitting" after a series of great earthquakes, which
she states will take place just before the coming of the Antichrist. As anyone
who has read the book will know, inUnveiling
the Apocalypse I argued that the
rise of the Antichrist will take place following the total economic collapse of
America, which I believe will happen as a result of the greatest natural
disaster in human history. If the East Coast of the Americas is devastated by
themega-tsunami event generated by the
lateral collapse of the volcano Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands (an event
which will fulfill the "great mountain, burning with fire" being
thrown into the sea in Rev 8:8), this unprecedented disaster would ensure the total
economic collapse of the entire United States. This event would then leave a
political vacuum that will provide the perfect opportunity for the rise of the
Son of Perdition to world dominance. In turn, I argue that
the repercussions of this catastrophe will inevitably lead to the
battle of Armageddon, when the world will be destroyed by fire "falling
from the sky" (as was warned by Our Lady of Akita).

If we study the prophecies below, we can see
that series of events depicted in the Sister of the Nativity's visions
corresponds exactly with the hypothesis I forward in the book:

“…I see in God that a long time before the rise
of Antichrist the world will be afflicted with many bloody wars. Peoples will
rise up against peoples and nations will rise against nations sometimes allied,
sometimes enemies in their fight against the same party. Armies will
come into frightful collisions and will fill the earth with murder and
carnage….”

“…These infernal and foreign wars will cause
enormous sacrifices, profanations, scandals and infinite evils, because of the
incursions that will have been made into the Church…”

“…As well as that I can see that the earth will
be shaken in different places by frightful earthquakes. I see whole mountains
cracking and splitting with a terrible din. Only too happy will one be if one
can escape with no more than a fight but no I see come out of these gaping
mountains whirlwinds of smoke, fire, sulphur and tar which reduce to sinders
entire towns. All this and a thousand other disasters must come before the man
of Sin (antichrist)…”

According to Sr. Jeanne le Royer, some time before the coming of the
Antichrist, the world will experience the "nations rising against
nations" foretold by Christ in His eschatological discourse on Mt. Olivet
(which I argue relates to world wars of the 20th century). After this, she sees
the earth being shaken by a series of earthquakes which cause "whole
mountains" to crack and split. In the book, I theorize that the eruption
of Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands is directly related to the eschatological
earthquake which devastates Jerusalem during the Second Coming of Christ. This
earthquake is described in the Book of Revelation as the greatest earthquake in
human history - which takes place just before God punishes "Babylon
the Great":

"And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and
a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so
great was that earthquake. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities
of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain
the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath."

(Rev 16:18-19)

The Book of Jeremiah tells us that this punishment will be brought about by the
casting down of a "burning mountain", after which,
"Babylon" is engulfed by huge tidal waves:

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the
LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand
against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt
mountain"....

"How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth
seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! The
sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous
waves. Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a
desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of
man passes"...

"A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from
the land of the Chaldeans! For the LORD is laying Babylon waste and
stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the
noise of their voice is raised, for a destroyer has come upon
her, upon Babylon"...

"When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into
the midst of the Euphrates, and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more,
because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become
exhausted."

(Jer 51:25, 41-43, 54-56, 63-64)

"Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw
it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down
with violence, and will be found no more"...

(Rev 18:21)

"The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great
mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea
became blood".

(Rev 8:8)

In the book, I theorize that if the world's greatest earthquake took place in
Jerusalem, as is predicted in the Apocalypse, this would almost certainly lead
to an increase of volcanic activity across the North African tectonic plate,
which in turn, could ultimately lead to a devastating eruption of Cumbre Vieja.
This would then explain how "Babylon" is to be punished after the
greatest earthquake in human history, as is described in Rev 16:18-19. So the
sequence of events given in the prophecies of Sr. le Royer fits in perfectly
with timeline of events I attempt to detail in Unveiling the Apocalypse.

Rather interestingly, the Sister of the Nativity's prophecies appear to
be related to the first decades of the 21st century:

“…One day I found myself in a vast plain
alone with God. Jesus appeared to me and from the top of a small hill showing
me a beautiful sun in the horizon. He said dolefully: “the world is passing
away and the time of my coming draws near. When the sun is about to set one knows
that the day is nearly over and that night will soon fall. Centuries are like
days for me. Look at this sun; see how much it still has to travel and
estimate the time that is left in the world.“ I looked intently and it seemed
to me that the sun would set in about 2 hours. Jesus said “Do not forget that
those are not millenaries but only centuries and they are few in number” But
I understood that Jesus reserved to Himself the knowledge of the exact number
and I did not wish to ask him more. It sufficed me to know the peace of the
church and the restoration of the discipline were to last a reasonably long
time…”

Writing towards the end of the 18th century, Sr. le Royer was told that the
"sun would set in about 2 hours", and that these hours represented
centuries - placing the significance of her prophecies as relating to sometime
around the turn of the millennium. Yet before this "setting of the
sun", when the world will pass away, Sr. le Royer was shown that the
Church would be restored during an age of peace which would last "a
reasonably long time". Given that her prophecies are centred around the
turn of the millennium, it seems that the age of peace given to the world
before the coming of the Antichrist is related to this exact time period.

The above prophecies of Sr. Jeanne le Royer are fairly well known,
having been cited in the books Catholic Prophecy by Yves
Dupont, The Prophets and Our Times, by Rev. Gerard Fulton and Desmond Birch's Trial, Tribulation & Triumph. But
there is another lesser known prophecy of the Sister of the Nativity which
dates the significance of her prophesied events even more specifically to the
second decade of the 21st century:

"Woe ! Woe ! Woe to the last century !

Here is what God wanted to show me in his Light. I began looking in the
light of God, the century which must begin in 1800; I saw by this light
that judgement wasn't there, and that it wouldn't be the last century. I
considered, thanks to the same light, the century of 1900, until the end,
to see positively if it would be the last. Our Lord made me know, and at the
same time made me doubt, if it would be at the end of the century of 1900,
or in that of 2000. But what I saw, it is that if the judgment arrived in
the century of 1900, it would come only towards the end, and that if the
world exceeds this century, the one of 2000 will
not pass without the judgment intervening, as I saw it in the light of God."

Here, Sr. le Royer tells us that a judgment she was shown in "the light of
God" would take place before the 21st century had
passed. But what could this particular judgment refer to? The fact that the
visionary was shown a judgment taking place in "the light of God"
sounds remarkably similar to the words of the Third Secret of Fatima:

"After the two parts which I have
already explained, at the left of Our Lady and

a little above, we saw an
Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing,

it gave out flames
that looked as though they would set the world on fire;

but they died out in
contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated

towards him from her
right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand,

the
Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'.

And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar
to how people

appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop
dressed in White

‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other
Bishops, Priests,

men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the
top of which there

was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree
with the bark"...

In the Third Secret of Fatima, the Shepherd
Children were also shown a judgment taking place in "an immense light that
is God" - in the form of the final Passover of the Church, which will take
place during the persecution of the Antichrist. But the children were
additionally shown that this light was "something similar to how people
appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it". As we will discuss in
some more detail in a future post, the great mirror-like "light"
shown to the Shepherd Children of Fatima (which takes place just before the
final Passover of the Church) is related to the appearance of theGreat Signforetold by St. Faustina and Our Lady of Akita, which many commentators
believe is directly related to the prophecy of the Illumination of Consciences
- when people will see the state of their souls reflected back at them as ifshown in a mirror. It seems that the appearance of the Great Sign (which will possibly be
something like a spectacular cross-shaped supernova) will cause people to
deeply reflect and examine the state of their consciences, and will help to
fully establish the Second Pentecost. In the Third Secret, the appearance of
the mirror-like "immense light that is God" takes place in
direct response to the Angel's threefold call for penance before the
earth is struck by the flaming sword. This call for repentance will be met with
the arrival of the Second Pentecost, when Our Lady will intervene to quench the
flames that threaten to consume the planet through the triumph of her
Immaculate Heart.

Is it possible then that the "judgment"
seen by Sr. le Royer taking place in the light of God is one and the same as
immense light seen by the Shepherd Children of Fatima? If so, then the arrival
of this event is dated by the Sister of the Nativity to occur before the close
of this very decade - which is yet
another remarkable convergence on this particular time period.

One last striking parallel of the prophecies of Sr.
Jeanne le Royer with the theories I present inUnveiling
the Apocalypseis the nature of
the relationship between the Two Witnesses and the martyr-pope seen by various
Catholic visionaries.

“…Antichrist will kill the Pope, probably by crucifixion. As a child of
ten he will know more than anyone else in the world and when he is thirty he
will begin his real work. Fifteen days after the ascension of Enoch and Eli as
into Heaven, terrible catastrophes will come upon the earth: most severe
earthquakes, tidal waves inundating much of the earth's surface, culminating in
a thick darkness over the entire earth. “

Here, Sr. le Royer foretells the martyrdom of a pope under the auspices of the
Antichrist - which appears to deliberately echo the deaths of the Two Witnesses
by the Beast that rises from the bottomless pit:

And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from
the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and
their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is
called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

(Rev 11:7-8)

The mention of the pope being "crucified" is a symbolic link to the
martyrdom of the first pope, St. Peter, and also further ties into the Third
Secret, where the "bishop dressed in white" embarks on his own via
dolorosa, before being martyred at the foot of the Cross in Jerusalem. Sr.
le Royer then turns from mentioning the assassination of a pope under the
Antichrist to describe the ascension of "Enoch" and "Eli"
(Elijah), which further suggests that the identity of one of the Two Witnesses
is a Roman Catholic Pontiff. After the martyrdom and ascension of the Two
Witnesses in the vision of Sr. le Royer, she is shown "tidal waves
inundating much of the earth's surface", which would again tie in with my
mega-tsunami hypothesis. In this scenario, the "thick darkness"
enveloping the earth would most likely be due to a massive volcanic eruption
(i.e. at La Palma in the Canary Islands). This would then correspond
with my theory that the "huge mountain, burning with fire" being
thrown into the sea takes place in response to the martyrdom of the Two
Witnesses. The water turning to blood after the burning mountain is thrown into
the sea recalls the ministry of Moses and the plagues of Egypt - which may also
have been caused by a volcanic eruption (see the earlier post The Santorini Eruption and the Apocalyptic Plagues of
Egypt).

The Book of Zechariah tells us that a "great mountain" is
thrown down by Zerubbabel - who is used by the Book of Revelation to
represent one of the Two Witnesses:

Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a
plain.

(Zech 4:7)

In addition to this, the Apocalypse describes a
great earthquake taking place in Jerusalem after the ascension of the Two
Witnesses into heaven:

But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them,
and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.
Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And
they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. And at that
hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand
people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave
glory to the God of heaven.

(Rev 11:11-13)

This earthquake, centred on the Holy City of Jerusalem (the place the
Lord was crucified), is the same as the eschatological earthquake which splits
the "great city" into three parts in Rev 16:18 - after which God
punishes Babylon the Great. The Book of Zechariah tells us that this great
earthquake, which splits apart the Holy City, will take place during the Second Coming of Christ:

Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will
be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem
to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women
raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people
shall not be cut off from the city. Then the LORD will go out and fight against
those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall
stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the
Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley,
so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half
southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of
the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come,
and all the holy ones with him.

On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. And there shall be
a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening
time there shall be light.

(Zech 14:1-7)

In turn, the Book of Ezekiel states that after
this colossal earthquake in the land of Israel, mountains would be
thrown down and God will summon a sword against the end-time enemy referred to
as "Gog" during the battle of Armageddon. It is then that the realm
of Satan under his servant the Antichrist will be destroyed by fire falling
from the sky, as warned by Our Lady of Akita:

But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel,
declares the Lord GOD, my wrath will be roused in my anger. For in my jealousy
and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great
earthquake in the land of Israel. The fish of the sea and the birds of the
heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the
ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my
presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall,
and every wall shall tumble to the ground. I will summon a sword against Gog on
all my mountains, declares the Lord GOD. Every man's sword will be against his
brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and
I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him
torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur. So I will show my greatness
and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they
will know that I am the LORD.

(Ezek 38:18-23)

A selection of various prophecies of Sr. Jeanne le Royer can be found at the Catholic Revelations website here.

About Me

As part of research for my book Unveiling the Apocalypse: Prophecy in Catholic Tradition, I studied the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic languages before graduating in 2006 with First Class honours. My book is the product of around ten years of original research. This blog is intended as a means of supplementing the material presented in the book by providing relevant up-to-date information.